#experience

In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend -- only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor. ↗

— Ben Kenobi Stars Wars Episode IV

#luck #starwars #experience

Live for the moment but do it the smart way so you can experience more nice moments !! ↗

— JoJo

#life #life-and-living #life-philosophy #truth #experience

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#new-perspectives #personal-growth #experience

Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way... ↗

— James S.A. Corey

#experience

I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you." He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone." "I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#reyes-farrow #taser-app #experience

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#first-impressions #passion #change

You know, Bob, school is school, one of those life experiences we kids all have to get through in order to become you. Then we wonder what all the fuss was about, especially while we're cleaning up your little messes: toxic waste, war, bank bailouts. Honestly, if we ran up debt the way you guys do? You'd ground us, take away our cells, and make us clean toilets with a toothbrush until we'd pay back every penny. ↗

— Ilsa J. Bick

#experience

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#experience #humanity #meliorist #optimist #pessimist

Well, to what do we owe the honor of your presence?" I asked snidely. National Slut Convention next door? Twatwaffles Anonymous? ↗

— Karina Halle

#eit-series #experience

Kiddo, I rarely get compliments. So I just decide to compliment myself instead. You should try it sometime. ↗

— Karina Halle

#eit-series #experience